March 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Dual Proc - 1850r
by Stuart Powell 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hello, Kirk. You can install the SMP kernel from YaST. The package is k_smp. You can also remove k_deflt at the same time. Look up SMP on the SuSE Support DB site, and you'll see all 4 steps involved in upgrading your kernel. Sorry I can't be more specific right now, but I'm a bit pushed for time. If you still can't find out how to do it from these clues, yell back, and I'll probably be able to help you out later on. Bye for now, Stuart. >>> "Kirk Moore @ Speakeasy" <mouserkm(a)speakeasy.net> 03/03/03 12:45PM >>> Hello; moving on in the 1850r process - It appears that I am only using one of the CPUs during installation, and after. Looking over the help files, and documentation, does not present me with any "options" to turn on SMP (or the flavor of the month). Any suggestions? Ideas? page numbers? (heheh) -- Kirk Moore Moore Webs Solutions Black Holes are created when God divides by zero!

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Lexmark X-75
by glenn pedersen 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

I recently bought this printer/scanner for the kids and was wondering if anyone has been able to get it to work with Suse? I downloaded the cups drivers for the x73 but they didnt work. I realise [now:)] that this is a "win printer" and prolly wont work but I guess it won't hurt to ask anyway. Cheers, Glenn

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smb and ldap
by Patrick Nelson 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Just getting a smb server going. Have some users who's login names are different from windows and Linux. Using a map file to map Linux users accounts to windows user accounts. Buy watch the log.smb I see that the mapping is taking place however, the authentication doesn't. Would the fact that the Linux authentication is done by an LDAP server mater? The passwords are the same. Maybe I'm not going about this is the right way? Any suggestions are welcome.

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Turn down Volume ?
by arawak 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hi all, How do I turn down the volume in KDE3.1 for the desktop... There is no icon on the desktop to turn down the default level of any sounds. Can someone put me straight pls tia Dre -- arawak <arawak(a)blueyonder.co.uk>

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Re: An entry in a menu doesn't appear
by Stephen Allewell 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Laurent Rathle wrote: >Le Lundi 3 Mars 2003 19:46, Peter Simonsson a écrit : > > >>Did you increase the version number in kdeuirc? >> >> > >I just did it "0.2" instead of "0.1". It does'nt work. > > > > Do you have a version of the old rc file in your home directory, ~/.kde/share/apps/appname/rcfilename. I have fallen foul of this, as it gets preference over the system one. Steve

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Konq settings
by arawak 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hi All Is there anyway to set the Konqueror browser to my own custom settings & keep them permanently ? e.g Font & sizes? Tia Dre -- arawak <arawak(a)blueyonder.co.uk>

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SMP over a cluster?
by H du Plooy 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hi all, For a while now I've been interested in building a small cluster out of old pentium boards, just for fun, but it might become useful if I can make it work the way I want to. I've read a lot of the Beowolf and clustering documentation. Most seem to relate to applications that are aware of the multi-node environment, and distribute it's load itself. However, I'm interested in building a system where software that's unaware of how many processors/nodes are available, can be run and the load distributed automatically across all the machines involved. Here's a small example of what I have in mind: Hardware: two identical pentium motherboards, 64mb ram each, a pentium 100 on the one, a pentium 200 on the other. Connected by lan, I suppose(?). I open a terminal on one of the two (doesn't matter which) and type a command - something processor heavy like mencoder, lame or oggenc, or any everyday program. This process then automatically gets devided between the two machines, and since the one is twice as fast as the other, the slower one gets about 33% of the load, and the faster one about 66%. So this is like one OS running on two computers. Is this possible? If not, what's the closest I can come to this. Can you suggest any reading on this or similar type of multi-computer implimentation? Thank you Hans

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shapecfg
by Jonathan Nichols 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

shapecfg - traffic shaping stuff/etc. Is it included with 8.1? Basically I have a few websites that sometimes decide to do stupid stuff like posting mp3 files. They suck up WAY too much bandwidth. mod_throttle doesn't do the trick. It lets large files pass right through and otherwise refuses connections. That's not an effective solution. mod_bandwidth apparantly does the same thing. I heard that you can use shapecfg to limit bandwidth on eth0. I'd like to limit bandwidth to the whole computer to prevent it from soaking up ridiculous amounts of bandwidth and saturating my T1. Anybody know about shapecfg or perhaps another way to do this? I'm just using the stock 8.1 stuff. thanks! -Jonathan

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Hylafax question (SOLVED)
by PL O'Smith 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

OK fax gurus, this mail's for you! I have gotten hylafax installed, ran faxsetup and actually sent faxes from both SuSEfax and printed to fax from kmail which also brings up the fax sending software. Faxes went out, receiver got them, fairly corrupt, but did get them! It seems the faxes received were chopped up. What I mean was, they printed some, missed some, printed some, missed some, etc., you get the picture. It was as if their machine was being fed the information too fast. I checked with the receiver to be sure their fax machine was working ok. It was as they had received several other faxes that same day. Now, I am not sure what is causing this problem, but I am pretty sure it's originating from my machine. Not sure if something misconfigured during the "faxsetup" program or I am missing something in using the fax frontends for hylafax. Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Patrick-- ========================= Ok, fax gurus, I seemed to have solved my hylafax problems quite nicely. For all those that put a thought into what might be causing the problem, thanks! :o) For those that didn't give it a second thought! :-P For any that might want to know how I got it fixed and Hylafax sending out nice faxes with SuSEfax program and even printing to fax, how neat that is! It seems that hylafax does not like Class 1 type modems or setups very much. It works, but only as I described above. After eliminating the settings files and running faxsetup again, noting that I had a Class 2 modem instead, did it work as expected. My modem supported both as most newer modems do now, so when answering those questions about what to use, answer Class 2 and you should have a well behaved fax setup with Hylafax! Patrick

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Trying to update KDE via Synaptic...can't do it.
by Tom Nielsen 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

I keep getting an error when trying to update from KDE 3.0 to 3.1. After everything downloads, I get an rpm error. I've tried it 4 times and removing packages from cache 2 of those times. Nada. I seem to remember that I could do it with apt-get, but cant' remember the command. Can anyone help? Thanks, Tom --- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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